Chinese internet users will have less access to porn and pirated information until next year

The Chinese government has launched yet
another attack against internet pornography, with officials expecting
the anti-porn program to last until the end of May 2010.

To
help lead the way, WAP site registration will have to undergo
additional scrutiny, with each site's registration information
verified before it goes live. Furthermore, the government also
will go beyond WAP sites, and will also target third-party payment
companies, and others who are involved in providing online
pornography to Chinese internet users.

"If they do not
take up proper actions, they will be held
for the breach of duty," according to a statement reported
on by Chinese media. "In those serious cases, the
corporate representatives will be forced to apologize to the public
and promise to correct their wrong-doings in public."

Some
web hosts in Shanghai, Henan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi are now saying
some customers are calling in to complain they can no longer access
their own personal Web sites. Furthermore, ISPs are no longer
allowed to host personal websites -- only businesses and companies
approved by the government -- can have individual Web sites.

The
so-called great wall of China has kicked thousands of PC users off of
the internet, with YouTube, twitter, Facebook and Flickr also
reprimanded for various reasons. YouTube came under fire in
March after videos highlighting the situation in Tibet were promoted
by Chinese users.

Along with a crackdown on internet porn, the
government also is leading yet another attempt to limit piracy --
several Chinese websites known for hosting copyrighted music and
movies were disconnected.

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quote: Communism is an economic system not a form of government. You mean Tyranny. Although I will agree that communist systems are susceptible to dictatorship or party rule.

Yes but the problem with Communism is it goes against the basic ideals, principles, and nature of man. Remember what ultimately brought down the Soviet Union. The people finally realized what a crock they were living. They wanted McDonalds and CocaCola. They wanted to make their own choices and live their own lives. And they wanted to work to better themselves and their families, not have their labor taken from them and given to everyone else.

So for a Communist system to "work", you have to tightly control the population. And, as history has shown, over time you ultimately will lose that control once things get bad enough.

Actually what brought down Soviet Russia was economic collapse and public dissent over a failed war effort in Afghanistan.

I know what you are saying, and your ideas about freedom are right. Communism has a tendency for tyranny.

However I would not say that Communism goes against human ideals, it goes against our ideals. I think that the only true communal society was a prehistoric and a pre-agriculture one. That's the only time when a communal system could have worked. In the presence of technology and civilization Communism is doomed to failure. Anyone who sets out to create a communist state will fail, not just in creating his utopia, but in making a true communist state, it's simply impossible nowadays. It would only be very advanced socialism. True Communism means lack of any and all class structure, and for that to work you can't have the technologies that necessitate specialized fields.

To help out one another is a very human thing and that is the root of communism. And indeed it was the earliest form of human economical and social organization (IMHO). However it is an archaic idea and has no place nowadays. attempts to create a communist society gives you human rights messes like China and Soviet Russia.

quote: To help out one another is a very human thing and that is the root of communism.

I think the root of socialism is wanting to abolish ALL private property and, therefore, rights. I argue with people who say it is a right to have basic things provided for you: food, shelter, clothes, medical service, education. What they don't realize is that if everyone has that right, from where do the provisions come? We all want stuff, but none of us want to work for it. Trade necessitates that both parties provide what the other desires or they won't get what they desire. Billion of people doing that daily does require things necessary to defend rights and uphold contracts: courts, national defense, roads... but then the government decides it must

(a) monopolize the money adopted by society and centrally fix the interest rate on borrowed money via a central bank.(b) turn the money from gold to something which can be manufactured by its issuer at no labor or material cost.(c) print the money and distribute it as it pleases while levying a progressive income tax. This allows them to socially engineer society and promote one legal behavior over another. Could be getting married, having kids, owning a home, starting a shrimp farm, imploding an investment bank.

If you can't see the problem with (c), I'll fill you in. The trader of production shifts from the earner (laborer) to a non-earner (politician). Non-earners of money don't fear loss, and without fear of loss, care and consideration for the return drops significantly. It becomes a game for dictatorial imbeciles who believe that they can create wealth better than we can. This command and control mentality has led to USA going from largest creditor to largest debtor, SS turning into an unsustainable ponzi scheme, the inflation of bubbles in tech stocks and housing.

But there are still some major rights we enjoy over China, and that's freedom to speak and arm ourselves to the teeth. Too bad we're too dumb to really utilize either.